From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 239 The hope of conquering the sea

In the south, the volcanoes have now turned into a yellow-green ocean.

The vines transformed from the root system are deeply rooted in the magma, ready to form a tight 'fishing net' under the base at any time to undertake the task of isolating the upper and lower parts.

Some of these are brand new models, which are somewhat different from the old predecessors that were planted before.

Strictly speaking, this new type of magic plant is actually a preliminary test product of the 'plant armor' proposed before, and it was the kind that failed.

The reason why a failed product is a failed product must have some shortcomings.

In the plan of the witch doctor who accepted the research mission of 'Plant Armor', a mature product should have the function of maintaining its own activity and operating a totem when not grounded;

In addition, mature products should be able to carry many totems in an acceptable body shape, and can be opened or closed by warriors conveniently and accurately. It is also best to use a method that can produce effects at any time just by thinking about it.

However, most of these plans failed in this type of test product. The final totem had limited carrying capacity and rigid control mode, making it unsuitable for actual combat applications.

But just when the witch doctor was about to lead the research team to abandon this plan and start a new path, an assistant raised a question or an improvement plan.

He said,

"Your Excellency Witch Doctor, aren't you very worried about the control of the plants on the volcanoes? Why not plant this thing as a tree and let the soldiers control it?"

"If you can go beyond armor, then you no longer need to worry about the size restrictions caused by power requirements;"

The latest mature product of the institute is a three-cylinder compound-expansion steam power system. The steam passes through high-pressure cylinders, medium-pressure cylinders, and low-pressure cylinders arranged from small to large, using a graded work method to use the internal energy of the steam more efficiently.

And this drives the external shaft to form power.

"Yes, its mechanical principle is not very advanced, and there is no real difference from that of a steam engine."

Therefore, although the Republic has achieved outstanding results in shipping over the years, it has various classes of ships for different application scenarios, with various classes and categories of different sizes and tonnages and high and low speeds emerging in endlessly.

The automated factory model is the best production system that combines all of these efficiently.

Furnesta firmly believed that if this set of tools could be applied in shipbuilding, the ocean would no longer be an obstacle to the Republic, and the "conquering the sea" would definitely be achieved in a short time.

"But that thing"

Of course, it is in the same line as the Armor Project, which means that while this plan avoids the "carrying totem capacity", it also retains the disadvantages of "rigid control" and "needing to be grounded to absorb nutrients".

But because the power these steam engines can bring is not even comparable to the power system used on the Armor Breaker self-propelled cannon, Maxisstad does not regard them as mature products and has continued to use them.

own research.

Masista's eyes gradually brightened as he listened to Nesta's explanation, as well as the scholars watching around him;

Their knowledge in many aspects such as natural physics reminded them that this seemed to be a feasible idea.

Nesta's "Jiu Occupying the Magpie's Nest" took control of the ground in front of her with her backhand, and began to use magic to transform it;

Under his adjustment, a cube bulged out of the ground, gradually began to evolve in the direction Nesta wanted, and eventually separated from the ground to form a separate mechanical structure.

"Please tell me."

At this time, some non-spellcaster researchers are making improvements to this relatively mature solution, such as optimizing its mechanical structure, trying to add a totem control system, etc.

"The problem at this stage is that the gas activity in the reaction chamber is too violent. Without a vent like a cannon, it will generate huge pressure on the piston box;"

In the improvement plan, the seeds will be grown into saplings, and inside them, the prototype of the 'cockpit' will be formed according to the previous method of building armor, together with the totem control system;

Therefore, it is impossible for the warrior responsible for control to precisely control the tens of thousands of huge roots and branches;

For another example, room 301 today can be room 401 tomorrow;

For another example, the third and fourth floors were merged, resulting in the entire Research East losing one floor, etc.

This kind of design is not "interesting", but because there are indeed many large instruments in the mechanical research institute that are inconvenient to move up and down, and this method is needed as an aid.

The only problem now is the power system. You can't rely on wind and paddle power to drive, right?

'Anyone who organizes and instigates more than 10 but less than 50 trolls to go to sea together shall be punished with ten days of dark confinement, three years of imprisonment, and 30 years of closed forced labor;'

"Also, I have an idea here for you to take and think about."

When Nesta led the witch doctors to carry out the research and development and construction of cannons and subsequent factories, Furnesta, as a senior witch doctor, naturally also participated in it.

Outside the building, there are several large cranes connecting the sixth floor to the first floor, specially used to transport large machinery.

“When the reaction chamber is deflated, it drives the upper piston to move upward, and when it compresses and inhales, a low-pressure area appears at the lower end of the piston box, causing the piston to move downward;”

During these years, in addition to personal practice, he devoted almost all his experience to the development of ships, making indelible contributions to the shipping development of the tribe and the Republic.

There are sports fields, canteens, indoor parking lots, and specially built high-temperature and high-pressure flame baths. These are areas related to life.

In addition, the 'three-dimensional compliance enchantment' technology is also a reinforcement solution tailor-made for giant ships. Ships with larger tonnage and stronger armor protection capabilities will be born with the support of this technology and become ships sailing on the ocean.

the giant ship above;

In addition, there is also a material testing ground for cultivating special plants, which is one of the important branches of the Mechanical Research Institute.

"Have you read the data that came with the research on the fin of the artillery shell before?"

The person who came up with this idea was a non-spellcaster. After the Republic increasingly diluted the concept of 'witchcraft apprentice', such research-oriented non-spellcasters had a new name - scholars.

Therefore, after completing his tasks in the cannon production system, he entered the process of drafting, and in just over a month, he submitted the feasibility report and outcome prospects to the Rune Council for discretion.

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"I'm thinking, let's call the one you just had a 'gas-explosion reciprocating engine'. This thing seems to lose part of its energy at the conversion end, right?"

He explained,

Therefore, the Rune Council gave him a merit evaluation of "playing a significant role (Level 2) in key scientific research projects (Category 3)" and awarded him the Fourth Class River Medal in recognition of Furnesta (Front Ya).

) in the process of growing the population.

At this time, Masista began to introduce again. He pointed to the remaining shorter buildings or open spaces and explained their functions.

And these are basically 'cooperations' that are achieved by the education department of the ruling government through matchmaking.

Nesta listened to the news quite happily, sometimes nodding, sometimes opening his mouth to study it carefully;

I don't know why, but his mood at this time was more joyful than when he had broken through previous levels.

During this entire movement process, the warriors could only turn on or off certain totems to allow the magic plants to complete the above actions on their own, and could only roughly control the direction of movement.

"And once the body size can be relaxed, the number of totems they can carry will naturally increase;"

"Compared with existing steam power, this power generation method has great advantages;"

Therefore, they will go through many processes including breeding totem trees, birthing totem trees, and engraving totem trees to become saplings before they are taken to their destination.

"It's just that the nutrients needed for the same voyage may increase several times."

"That's right, during this process you will of course have a good understanding of many parameter requirements for ship power. When the time comes, your current idea will be submitted for review as a more advanced power output device."

He basically asked about the situation of the institute, and Masista responded in detail.

It is a large research building with a length of 80 meters, a width of 60 meters, and a height of 90 meters, with a total of six floors;

Although its shape looks very similar to the building in Nesta's previous life, Masista knows that this is not the case. This building is actually made up of three multi-functional tree houses, with many convenient features inside.

The totem central structure that is not controlled by the caster can play a very good supporting role in research.

"Yes sir, I understand!"

When the sapling matures, the cockpit within the trunk will expand day by day until a warrior can control its roots and crown through the totem center to complete some tactical actions that were pre-designed in the sapling stage.

In short, he decided to go and have a look first before talking about it.

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The new city is quite huge, and it is more or less a 'central city' with tens of thousands of residents. Therefore, in order to facilitate travel, the ruling government installed a rail transit system in the city, allowing moose to pull carriages on several major routes.

Busy traffic runs on fixed lines.

They are an important part of the scientific research and education force of the Republic. Although most of the time they are doing basic work, sometimes they will have a 'flash of inspiration' and become an important impetus for the research of the witch doctors.

"Look, the high-pressure airflow comes in from here," he said, pointing to the opening in the center of the front end of the machine.

Of course, the 'cannon on board plan' was approved by the subsequent meeting;

Many attempts to go south to the sea were blocked by the monsters, but they only reached offshore and sank into the sand. In addition, the trolls themselves are not close to water, making sea voyages a dangerous field;

When the ocean exploration work suffered several heavy casualties, the Rune Council forcibly stopped this almost suicidal attempt and specially issued a 'no sea order'.

The Maritime Prohibition Order stipulates,

Another example is to turn part of the crown into a vine to complete simple actions such as whipping, binding, lifting and pulling.

‘Anyone who goes to sea without authorization shall be punished with closed compulsory labor for 1 to 3 years;’

But being able to do this is already impressive. If nearly ten thousand plants can be controlled in this way, even such a simple attack or restriction would be enough to form a terrifying scale.

'Anyone who organizes and instigates more than 50 but less than 100 trolls to go to sea together shall be punished with 30 days of dark confinement, 10 years of imprisonment, and 60 years of closed forced labor;'

It has a fairly complex transmission structure inside, and there are also very precise operating logics between the many pistons and connecting rods, forming a relatively efficient internal energy conversion and power transmission system.

"Can we eliminate the middle piston and other links and directly apply the impact force caused by the air burst flow to the spindle?"

After listening to these situations, the two Nestas entered the building, took the 'direct elevator', and went straight to the storage place where experimental steam power components of the past generations were stored.

Some also devote their energy to runes, magic-like natural disturbances, and totems;

In addition, there are dozens of senior scholars in mechanical structure, physics and other fields in the institute, half of whom are also responsible for teaching at the Central School;

There are also dozens of graduates and senior trainee researchers from the First School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The former are undertaking graduation internship tasks, while the latter are professional students undergoing targeted training;

"What should I say?"

When Nesta saw this report, what flashed in his mind was the era of giant ships and cannons in the previous life, and what flashed in his mind were the behemoths of war - 'battleships'.

"Well, I understand, then let's continue with the feasibility report and submit it to the Rune Council for review."

"The incoming airflow will first pass through these curved fan blades. Let's call it a 'moving turbine'"

"On the one hand, it can reduce the fuel bin in the machine and reserve space for water storage, which can correspondingly increase the reserve of artillery shells and other materials;"

At the entrance of the institute, soldiers from the Internal Security Department of the Military Commission were on guard. When he saw Nesta, he took the lead in saluting and after going through the verification process, he controlled the totem to open the door.

"Don't worry, as a short-term replacement, it's sufficient."

But after all, a long life creates a lot of time that can be used for learning. Those who are willing will always have the opportunity to make up for their own shortcomings in the amount of knowledge.

There were other passengers in the car, but after everyone bowed and saluted Nesta, they stopped disturbing the two Your Excellencies, who looked very busy, and focused on their own affairs;

Occasionally, people who need to get off the bus at the station will not ask the bus to stop. They often jump off directly with a salute, and then walk away with their heads high and laughing.

During this process, the warriors can also only perform limited controls such as 'start', 'end', and 'key direction' through totems.

Of course, there seemed to be an extra step today, which was to awkwardly salute Nesta and say hello while picking her forehead.

"So, I think that when applying it to the power system, the gas output power of the reaction chamber is not as strong as possible, but it is necessary to use appropriate small reaction chambers for multiple groups of parallel operations to reduce the difficulty of utilization and reduce the work interval.

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"The second layer also has a similar dense annular distribution of fan blades, but we designed it to be fixed. It mainly uses the calculated arc surface on its surface to play the role of secondary acceleration of the air flow, so we call it 'fixed'.

turbine';"

'Anyone who organizes and instigates more than 1 but less than 10 trolls to go to sea together shall be punished with three days of dark confinement, 1 year of imprisonment, and 10 years of closed forced labor;'

From toy-like steam turbines, to steam condensation vacuum power machines, to expansion water-cooled power machines, and even to applications in high-pressure boilers.

Because the material properties far exceeded the upper limit of the application of existing technology, and the physical theory was too premature with the support of magic, Nesta saw a steam power system that was progressing rapidly.

So, Nesta started to visit under Masista's introduction.

In addition, occasionally school teachers will visit with children in middle and lower grades, and take them to do some interesting or novel experiments in the institute to deepen their interest in learning.

Nesta placed the complex machine, which was about one meter long, on the table, pointed to the side with a semi-open structure, and began to explain his thoughts.

Nesta thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out how to describe what she wanted to express;

For example, in order to achieve transfer deployment, they need to recover part of the root system, transform into an arthropod and multi-legged form, and transfer it to the farthest point of the remaining grounded root system, and then lower part of the root system again, and retract the grounded root system at the previous location.

This cycle continues until the area to be deployed is reached and all the roots are deployed again to enter the stake output mode.

"clear!"

The team he led has actually been conducting research on steam engines for some time, and has completed the development of the initial prototype and many subsequent improved models;

At that time, looking at the cannons with different calibers and the entire highly automated factory system, Furnesta felt a strong throbbing;

"Yeah, you know it for sure, but if it's a surface ship, the existing complex nutrients can actually be used."

When it came to this aspect, the witch doctor was full of enthusiasm and introduced his idea to Nesta in detail.

Masista proposed that the current idea of ​​using steam expansion to drive piston movement should be replaced by using the gas explosion process of the air compression reaction chamber to do work.

"After that, there is the fourth level of fixed turbine."

The Mechanical Research Institute is surrounded by a wide circle of walls, and the largest building inside can be roughly seen even from the center of the new city.

"Okay. I understand."

Others prefer to explore in depth in aspects such as law, music, and natural history.

But after all, it is just the same thing. In terms of power, except for oars, it is still a sail. In terms of loading and unloading, all labor is used. In terms of function, it is nothing more than shipping and transportation. Overall, there is no earth-shaking breakthrough.

"Moreover, the compression time required for a large reaction chamber is too long. Although the kinetic energy generated during the explosion is quite large, on the one hand it is more difficult to utilize because of the above reasons. On the other hand, the interval between operations is too long and it cannot form long-term power.

;"

Therefore, before the Rune Council entered into formal decision-making, he called the person in charge of the Mechanical Research Institute who had previously arranged to study steam engines, and after asking about the relevant situation, said that he would go for an inspection after the meeting.

From this witch doctor, Nesta learned a lot of information that she had not paid attention to;

Inside the building, there are several high-speed plant ‘elevator rooms’ in the southeast, northwest and northwest, which can easily access all locations in the building;

"What do you mean?" Masista asked uncertainly.

But that doesn’t stop them. If you can’t explain it, make one on the spot for them to see.

So, while complaining that the language system was still not rich enough, he started to take action directly.

"Yes, Your Excellency."

“How does that compare to charcoal and water reserves?”

Nesta looked at the researchers who stood up to greet him when he arrived, and found that their desks were indeed piled with papers and pens for calculations, and small temporary modules were protruding from the walls, so he clicked without comment.

Nodding, he turned to ask what Masista meant by "new idea".

In addition, if communication is completed in advance, the overall relocation can be carried out as large as a floor or as small as an office.

For example, the first floor today can be the sixth floor tomorrow;

And can the Republic mobilize nearly 10,000 combatants? In fact, it can

New types of plants require the addition of components such as cockpits and totem control centers, so they cannot be planted in the target area in the seed state as in the past.

Furnesta is already over sixty years old, and he is much more mature and steady now than when Zeng Jin was responsible for the massacre in the Kabi tribe.

They can only turn on or off the corresponding totem according to the timing, so that the magic plant where they are located can complete several fixed mode operation plans.

Whenever this happened, Nesta would just smile and nod, and then continue the conversation with Masista;

When talking about river transportation and boats, we have to mention another old friend.

Funa, who has not been seen for a long time. No, maybe we should call him Furnesta according to the pronunciation.

Nesta first returned the guard's military salute, and then entered the compound with Masista and headed towards the research building.

'Before there is a qualitative breakthrough at the technical level, those who go to sea without permission, organize sea trips, and instigate those who go to sea will be punished and severely punished;'

To be honest, Furnesta could understand this, but the idea of ​​exploring the sea had cooled down. It wasn't until Nesta successfully made a breakthrough and brought about a new technological revolution.

The connecting rods at the upper ends of the two pistons are connected between the complex transmission structures.

But more researchers have moved on and, under the leadership of Masista, are involved in the early conception of new ideas.

Masta said with some anxiety,

"Your Excellency, Speaker of the Parliament, I think that gas compression reactors also have great potential in terms of power, so I started the preliminary design of this aspect without authorization. But I am definitely not misappropriating the research budget. It is still in the paper design stage for the time being. I originally planned to complete it.

After the feasibility study, a report will be submitted to you.”

He felt that this plan was quite feasible. Larger-caliber naval guns would be transported to giant ships in two- or three-unit configurations, and they would become forts floating in the ocean.

Even if we don't mention the future war, in the current operation against the advanced salamanders, the actual situation of the volcano group adjacent to the sea will play a major role.

"The force generated by these two processes can act on the transmission part through the connecting rod above the piston to form a reciprocating motion, thus forming power."

He took out a drawing on which he drew two spherical reaction chambers for the 'cannon' arranged in parallel;

At the upper end of the reaction chamber, where the gun barrel was originally placed, two pipes with air suction functions are arranged and connected to the piston box above;

The person in charge of the Mechanical Research Institute is a witch doctor, who is one of the inventors of many previous power machines. His name is pronounced Masista.

Furnesta had once thought about heading south, towards the end of the sea, but even if a large ballista was installed on the ship, it would not be able to deal with the thick-skinned, powerful, and usually large scary troll.

The sea monster.

"In this way, the battleship project has been approved and needs to be produced as soon as possible. The Mechanical Research Institute will first contact Furnesta to work out the application method of multi-cylinder compound expansion steam engines on battleships;"

Just like this time, the scholar's speech was listened to by the witch doctors, and they began to make corresponding changes to the 'failure'

As a result, the product that would have been abandoned was given a new light and had the opportunity to shine in the present, becoming the 'new type of magic plant' mentioned at the beginning.

"At that time, even if there is still the problem of rigidity in control, it should be able to play some auxiliary role in restricting mobility, right?"

In this conversation, the new location of the Mechanical Research Institute gradually approached

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This place is located in the new urban area, but overall it is quite remote. There are some research institutes in the surrounding area that have not been able to move into the mother tree due to site requirements, and the Mechanical Research Institute is one of them.

What he was referring to at this time was the front row of densely arranged fan blades arranged in a ring on the main axis, like blinds.

That's right, it's not about commuting straight up and down between floors, but directly going through the wall and through the floor under the control of the totem, and going to each office according to the prescribed route.

The same goes for those who got on the bus. The moment the tractor passed by them at a speed of nearly 70km/h, they took less than a second to get into the car, and then grinned proudly and took out the Black Forest coins.

Throw it in the coin box and find a place to sit;

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If we ignore all the matters related to material acquisition, then the structure and operation of ships are a completely natural physical process. In fact, it is not easy to make a qualitative leap.

All in all, after nearly ten thousand such saplings were produced day and night, river transport ships transported them to the south in batches for planting, and together with the old tree species that had been planted previously, they almost covered the entire highland.

Got up.

Therefore, with the accumulation of time, their presence is actually not uncommon. There are scholars in laboratories, research institutes, schools, government departments, law courts and other places;

for example

The research institute currently has two witch doctors, including Masista himself, and they are comrades who have been studying machinery together since their 'apprenticeship';

When the tractor approached the research institute, the two witch doctors jumped out of the car amidst the cheers of a troll, and then, after waving to the car that had flown far away in the blink of an eye, they turned back towards

There is only a large courtyard less than 200 meters left.

But Nesta, who had just heard his introduction, didn't see it that way. There were obviously models that could be used among the existing results, but this guy's own requirements were too high.

‘In the event of serious casualties, the crime will be increased by one level, up to the death penalty’

He believes that things like air compression cannons are simply weapons of destiny that were born for the sea.

Ships floating in and out of seawater are fully capable of carrying cannons of far larger caliber and larger numbers than road-based weapon systems;

The Rune Council instructed Furnesta to take the lead in researching the relevant content, and asked him to come up with several usable 'sail gunboats' as quickly as possible, even the kind that would fall apart after a few rounds of bombardment;

As long as the lethality is sufficient and the quantity is sufficient, then we can respond first.

After the meeting, Nesta went to the Mechanical Research Institute as he said before.

Among them, some study physics, chemistry, mathematics and other natural subjects;

"The calculations haven't reached that stage yet, but judging from the existing data, it still has absolute advantages in terms of space and weight."

Another example is to let the roots automatically search for other similar plants to find the roots of other magical plants in the invisible magma layer and merge with each other;

"On the other hand, the energy efficiency ratio is much higher than that of charcoal, and it also exceeds the efficiency of directly converting the internal energy of plants into kinetic energy (plants drive their own wheels, propellers, arthropods, etc.), but"

Of course, there is also a line connecting the Congress Center and the Mechanical Research Institute. At this time, the two witch doctors boarded the track tractor and set off to their destination amidst the sound of "clack, clack, clack, clack."

'Anyone who organizes and instigates more than 100 trolls to go to sea together shall be punished with 60 days of dark confinement, 30 years of imprisonment, and 120 years of closed forced labor;'

"After that, the gas flows through the third-layer dynamic turbine and continues to generate power;"

Although they have a qualitative gap compared to the witch doctors in terms of learning speed, memory, and brain calculation ability;

"It just requires the cave wolf cell fluid, right?"

Of course, the detailed data of each part of the model has not been calculated, so the thing that Nesta is demonstrating at this time will definitely not run. If you want to really realize this plan, you will have to go through a lot of calculations and structural reorganization.

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But sometimes, ‘idea’ is really important;

For example, right now, Masta felt that the engine he mentioned before was simply aesthetically pleasing, and he suddenly lost the motivation to continue researching it.

Seeing his state and hearing his enthusiasm for research, Nesta had no choice but to bring down Masista again.

He emphasized the next key tasks, asking the Mechanical Research Institute to cooperate with Furnesta to assemble the verification battleship before talking about anything else.

After emphasizing it many times and confirming that these guys listened, Nesta left with three steps and turned around. He called Furnesta in his office and told him the "two-step" plan.

While continuing the construction plan of the 'Sail Gunboat', he also connected with the Machinery Research Institute to complete the sharing of data, so that the other party could develop ship engines.

(End of chapter)